Speling

[asterix]

From (appropriately) the thread about neighbourly relations! I tend to agree with this:

[pedant] In english it's neighbour not neighbor![/pedant]
Sorry a couple people have annoyed me with that

Yes, these are apparently wrong:

Plough
Realise
Theatre
Catalogue
Grovelling
Apals
Haemorrage
Offence
Smoulder
Judgement

Why do we have an US English spellchecker on this and many other UK websites. Is technology so limited that we can't have a proper spellchecker?

Our US neighbours are having a laugh:

The lists above show the most common spellings that are different in Britain and the USA. With the growth of the Internet, it is likely that the American spellings will become the most used - despite any British objections!

Stand up for proper British spelling!

 

[coffeejo]

I assume the typo in the thread title is ironic?

 

[Over The Hill]

I am not up on this sort of thing but I think it is that the US English is the default setting and people do not know or do not bother to set the thing up in UK English.

I have found this happens quite often in work.

 

[Cush]

Guilty, My spelling is terrible and while I have changed my "Spell Check" to UK English English on my personal pages I have not changed it on pages like this.

 

[rich p]

Isn't it Spell Cheque in English?
And Spell Czech in Slav?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It's the browser not the website. I had a quick look on Chrome for an UK English dictionary the other day but didn't find it. However, I do have the UK English installed on Firefox. And if the wiggly red worms come out under a word you know you've spelled correctly but the dictionary doesn't recognise (place names, for example) I can right-click and add the word to the dictionary. I don't know how IE works.

 

[SHornswaggle]

Seeing smelling pistakes on an English forum is infuriating.. So is auto correct on the iPhone!! Lol

 

[byegad]

In Firefox I can opt for US English, UK English, which had to be installed, French and German, again both installed by me. It is your browser that checks the spelling, not the web site.

 

[swee'pea99]

From (appropriately) the thread about neighbourly relations! I tend to agree with this:



Yes, these are apparently wrong:

Plough
Realise
Theatre
Catalogue
Grovelling
Apals
Haemorrage
Offence
Smoulder
Judgement

Why do we have an US English spellchecker on this and many other UK websites. Is technology so limited that we can't have a proper spellchecker?

Our US neighbours are having a laugh:



Stand up for proper British spelling!

As in 'apals & pares'?

 

[asterix]

I assume the typo in the thread title is ironic?

Anyone who relies on spellcheck is a complete numpty and a dunderhead.

Of coarse I don't rely on spell cheque! Vat wood bee two easy.

In Firefox I can opt for US English, UK English, which had to be installed, French and German, again both installed by me. It is your browser that checks the spelling, not the web site.

I use Chrome and have changed its spell checker to UK English but on here the software still demands US spellings.

What have I missed?

 

[swee'pea99]

I didn't know it was a browser thing, so have just gone to change it in Chrome, and it's definitely spell-checking in UK English now.

There was a slight dog-leg in the process: I went to Settings > Show Advanced settings > Language > Language & input settings, where the box showed that the default was English (United States), with just 'English', underneath, along with a warning saying

Google Chrome cannot be displayed in this language
This language cannot be used for spell checking

But by clicking on the 'Add' button below, and selecting English UK from the drop-down list, English (United Kingdom) appeared below 'English', and when I clicked on that, it was fine. And now my checker runs in UK English.

 

[trampyjoe]

I don't know how IE works.

It doesn't.

 

[MontyVeda]

...

I use Chrome and have changed its spell checker to UK English but on here the software still demands US spellings.

What have I missed?

i don't think it's the website software... I use FireFox and have no issues with proper British spellings for English words like 'realise', 'flavour' and 'colour'.... not a red wiggly line in sight.

In chrome... right click and go to spell checker options... it may be set to the abominable US English

 

[Aperitif]

[QUOTE 2697823, member: 259"]I only have US English and Australian English as spell checker language options. Strewth![/quote]
So 'nobber' becomes 'cobber' - great!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

So now I'm in Chrome and I've just downloaded an extension. If I type plough I get the wiggly worm. If I right-click on the worm word, go down to spellchecker options and tick the UK English option, it disappears. I reckon your browser might have craftily reset itself to US English while you were out back.

It's always struck me as odd that spellchecker isn't a word according to most spellcheckers (it wants separate words or a hyphen...or adding).